Tracy Mumford

Viva la revolución!

The movie One Battle After Another, about a scrappy crew rising up against authoritarianism, was close behind.

Both are the kind of movies Hollywood has mostly stopped making.

Big-budget original stories instead of sequels, spinoffs, etc.

In fact, the studio executives who originally backed Sinners and One Battle After Another were widely expected to lose their jobs for taking those swings.

The biggest snub in the nominations, according to The Times pop culture reporter Kyle Buchanan, is that the Wicked sequel got none, zero, even after the first installment got a bunch.

And one of the major, hmm, reallys, according to Kyle?

F1, the race car movie featuring Brad Pitt driving real fast and taking his shirt off, walked away with a Best Picture nomination.

Vroom, vroom.

The Oscar ceremony will be March 15th.

Those are the headlines.

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Now, time for the quiz.

We've got a few questions for you about stories The Times has been covering.

Here we go.

In Greenland and Denmark, President Trump's recent threats to seize the Arctic island sparked protests.

Some of the people out on the streets wore red hats that look like the ones Trump made famous, and they do have the same MAGA initials.